On is the preposition; on the table is the prepositional phrase.
On is the preposition; on the table is the prepositional phrase.
On is a preposition that shows place, just like in or under. "My mother put the dish on the table." The dish is in a place..the table..and the preposition on shows that it is not IN the table.
Sure! "In the sentence 'The cat is on the table,' the word 'on' is a preposition."
In this case, "on" is the preposition.
Some examples of objects of a preposition include: "the table" in "on the table," "the book" in "under the book," and "the beach" in "at the beach." They are the nouns or pronouns that come after a preposition and are connected to the rest of the sentence.
"bags of sweets" isn't one part of speech. "bags" is a noun, "of" is a preposition, and "sweets" is a noun.
The object of a preposition is the word or phrase that the preposition immediately refers to. For example, in the sentence: Mary hid under the table. "under" is a preposition, and "the table" is its object. The object usually comes straight after the preposition, but sometimes it appears before. Compare these two sentences: In whose name shall I book the table? Whose name shall I book the table in? In both sentences, "in" is a preposition, and "whose name" is the object of that preposition.
It can be an adverb (they decided to move on) but it is more often a preposition (on top, on the table).
"Under the table" is an example of a prepositional phrase in which "under" is the preposition and "the table" is the object of the preposition.
An object of a preposition is the noun, pronoun, or noun phrase that follows a preposition in a sentence. For example, in the phrase "the book on the table," "table" is the object of the preposition "on."
In the sentence "The book is on the table," the word "table" is the object of the preposition "on."
The ball rolled across the table.